Today's News

Memorial Day ceremonies for deceased Perry County veterans, including service members killed on active duty, will be held throughout the area Sunday and Monday.
Services will be conducted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2939, Tell City American Legion Post 213, Harry G. Myers American Legion Post 142 of Cannelton and St. Meinrad American Legion Post 366, in conjunction with post auxiliar-ies and Sons of the American Legion.
Memorial services will consist of a brief ritual, eulogy, prayers, placing of memorial wreaths, a three-volley salute and a sounding of taps.

CAMPBELLSBURG—West Washington scored three unearned runs to beat Perry Central 5-1 in PLAC girls softball Saturday.
“We made errors that should have been routine plays, costing us one run in the fourth and two runs in the fifth,” said Perry Central Coach Mark Rothgerber.
Perry Central outhit the Senators 9-5.
“We hit the ball but not hard,” said Rothgerber, “We left nine on base and struck out on bad pitches with runners in scoring position and made some bad base-running decisions.

TELL CITY—Tell City didn’t score until the sixth inning in an 8-4 loss to Mount Vernon in the first game of a baseball doubleheader Saturday.
By that time Mount Vernon had built an 8-0 lead thanks to a seven-run fourth inning.
“The fourth inning was where the game got away,” said Tell City Coach Mark Wahl. “We had trouble throwing strikes and allowed too many baserunners to get on base too easily. Mount Vernon is too good of a team to allow that.”
Mount Vernon outhit Tell City only 9-7 for the game but drew six walks.

INDIANAPOLIS—The first Perry County baseball team to play a sectional game this year will be Tell City, which will open the Southridge Class 2A sectional against Forest Park Wednes-day, May 23, at 6 p.m. Perry County time.
Pairings were drawn by the IHSAA Tuesday.
The winner of Tell City’s game will play defending state champion South Spencer, which drew the bye in the seven-team sectional, at 10 a.m. on Memorial Day.

CAMPBELLSBURG—Derek Thomas went 4 for 4 to power shorthanded Perry Central past West Washington 8-2 in PLAC baseball Saturday.
Thomas scored three runs and drove in two.
Tyler Franchville and Andrew Mosby each went 2 for 4, with Mosby doubling home two runs in Perry Central’s five-run seventh inning.
Justin Hagan pitched the first 51⁄3 innings for the win. He struck out three and walked two.
Thomas pitched the last 12⁄3 innings, striking out four and walking one.

FERDINAND – Best Chairs Foundation, Inc. recently awarded scholarships to five dependent children of full time employees of Best Home Furnishings. Winners of this academic scholarship are selected by an independent scholarship committee, comprised of current or retired individuals from five different school systems in southern Indiana.
Four $4,000 scholarships were awarded for a four-year degree and one $2,000 scholarship was awarded for a two-year degree.

CROTHERSVILLE—Drake Duke threw a no-hitter as Cannelton beat Crothers-ville 13-0 in the second game of a baseball doubleheader Saturday.
Duke struck out 10 and walked one as Cannelton won the game in five innings by the 10-run rule.
“He had his curveball going well and his knuckleball moving well,” said Cannelton Coach Mike Garrett.
His teammates gave him a big early lead with six runs in the second inning and five in the third.

LEOPOLD—Tell City scored two runs in the first inning without hitting the ball out of the infield en route to beating Perry Central 5-1 in baseball Monday.
Drew Mowery struck out to start the game but reached base when the ball got past the catcher.
Brian Arnold followed with a grounder to the first baseman, who threw to second to try to get the lead runner. The throw was bobbled by the shortstop but did not appear to be in time to get the runner anyway.

LEOPOLD—Grace James won the 800-meter run and ran on the winning 3200 relay team to lead Perry Central to third place in the 11-team girls track sectional Tuesday.
Jasper won with 116.67 points and Southridge was second with 101. Perry Central scored 95.83, Tell City was seventh with 56.5, and Cannelton, with just one girl competing, did not score.
James, a freshman, passed Forest Park’s Amanda Jacob heading into the final straightaway to win the 800 in 2:28.10.